life & style // no. 16

Beauty on a Budget: NYX Total
Control Drop Foundation

> This innovative and inclusive foundation is worth a try

Lauren Kelly
Graphics Manager

 

y search for good budget foundation
led me (as this column often does)

to NYX, and their new Total Control
Drop Foundation. After weeks of my local
Shoppers having no stock and its staff
telling me how popular the foundation
was, | made the long trek to Metropolis
at Metrotown and its recently opened
NYX store. If you're looking to buy this
foundation, I would recommend doing
the same—the NYX store carries the
full 24-shade line, while Shoppers only
carries 10 shades and London Drugs only
has 12. I picked out the one that seemed
closest to my skin colour, “Alabaster.”

The foundation is quite thin and
runny, and comes in a small bottle with
a drop applicator. After wearing it daily
this week with primer and powder, I
definitely have some pros and cons for
this foundation. I’m happy with how
it looks on my face, which is the most
important thing. This product does
advertise build-able coverage, which is
true, but I had to use a lot of product
to get the level of coverage | prefer. It
mostly lasted well, although after long
days there was some wearing off. I didn’t

   

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get very oily during the week either,
which I have experienced with lower-
end foundations. Overall, wearing it
is pleasant, and it does its job well.

My biggest issue with this foundation
is that it is kind of a pain to apply without
the special brush they released for the
product. The thinness of the product did
have it soaking into my Beauty Blender
(BB) a bit more than other foundations,
and I felt like I had to use a lot of product
because of that. I tried a few methods—
putting it on the back of my hand and
dabbing it with the BB, pouring it straight
onto the BB, and awkwardly leaning
my head back and dropping the stuff

fried chicken place

> ‘Oz Korean Cuisine’ review

Jerrison Oracion
Senior Columnist

 

Kee fried chicken is a very popular
food item in the Lower Mainland,
and there are a lot of Korean fried chicken
places in our area. The crispy skin with
herbs and seasoning sprinkled on top and
the juicy meat makes it very delicious.

Oz Korean Cuisine is near the
David Lam campus in Coquitlam, a
few blocks away from Lincoln Station.
Originally thought to offer Korean
cuisine, their main specialty is Korean
fried chicken. Their chicken is marinated
and seasoned for 24 hours and they have

a lot of creative sauces to pair it with.
Unlike Dae-Ji Cutlet House, their
chicken is available in small and large
portions. I got “Half & Half? which
has half of their regular fried chicken
and half of their sweet chili flavoured
chicken. All of their chicken includes

a salad, and if you get their regular
fried chicken it also comes with
honey mustard for dipping. The fried

chicken is very juicy and crunchy.

The honey mustard adds sweetness
and a kick to the chicken. The sweet chili
flavoured fried chicken has a sweet and
spicy taste, and when you put lemon juice
on top of the chicken it adds zest to it.
The chicken is available as both bone-
in and boneless. Something unusual in
a Korean restaurant that they offer is
Tonkatsu—a Japanese meal featuring a
breaded and deep fried pork cutlet—and
it looks exactly like the Tonkatsu that
you can get in Japan! They also have

other Korean cuisine, including BBQ.
Other than the sweet chili they have
other flavours for their fried chicken,
including flavours that are made with
Korean ingredients. There are many
flavours to choose from. Oz Korean
Cuisine is located at 12-1190 Pinetree Way.

     

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directly on my face, then using the BB
to apply it. None were ideal, but I think
putting it straight on the sponge led to
the biggest waste of product. In fact, in
my nearly two weeks using it I’ve nearly
used half of the foundation to get the
coverage I want, which isn’t that heavy.
For people who have trouble finding
their ideal foundation colour like I do,
the wide range here will hopefully have
something for you. About half of the
shades in the line are for people of colour
with medium to dark skintones, which
is something I rarely see, sadly. The line
also carries pale colours in yellow and
pink undertones, with the former being

  

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especially hard to find, and “Pale’—NYX’s

lightest shade in this collection—is one

of the lightest foundation shades I’ve ever

seen. The website also lists the undertones
for each shade, which makes figuring

out your right match much easier.

This foundation is only $18 at the
NYX store, which is reasonable fora
foundation of this quality. One quick
note if you do shop at the NYX store for
this foundation—they don't do returns,
only shade swaps. While that’s great if
you get your shade wrong but otherwise
like the foundation, if you can get your
shade at a retailer that allows returns
I would do that for a first-time buy.

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